MARY C. Follett, "The Speaker of the House of Representatives" (1896). Woodrow Wilson, "Congressional Government" (1885). Most interesting reading in the light of the Wilson Administration. L. G. McConachie, "Congressional Committees" (1898). On Special Topics: C. R. Fish, "Civil Service and the Patronage" (1905). The best work on the subject. J. D. Barnett, "The Operation of the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall in Oregon" (1915). A helpful, intensive study of these important questions. E. P. Oberholtzer, The Referendum in America (1912). The most satisfactory and comprehensive work on the subject. Also discusses the initiative. J. R. Commons, "Proportional Representation" (1907). The standard American book on the subject. R. C. Brooks, "Corruption in American Politics and Life" (1910). A survey of our political pathology. End of Project Gutenberg's The Boss and the Machine, by Samuel P. Orth